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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:53:58 +0000
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Subject: Re: A workaround for Unix-style temporary files
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> > What makes it so attractive on Un*x and other POSIX syst. is that
> > the behaviour will be consistent even when the program crash.  You
> > could use atexit() to cleanup, but when the program die unexpectedly
> > its hard to cleanup without coorporation of the OS.
> 
> Exactly.  Therefore, any DJGPP-specific solution to this problem, even
> if we decide to include it, won't be able to remove the temporaries in
> all cases.

But we can remove if the program crashes too, why not? For example: when my 
program crashes I store the unsaved documents in a special file, so libc can 
remove temporals during a crash too.

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